No pity people with disabilities forging a new civil rights movement

Discusses the background against which the Americans with Disabilities Act was formed.

Main Author:	Shapiro, Joseph P.
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Times Books, Ã1994.
Edition:	1st pbk. ed.
Subjects:	CHABLA/Ruth E. Rishel Centre Foundation Grant People with disabilities > Civil rights > United States. Discrimination against people with disabilities > United States > History. People with disabilities > Government policy > United States > History.

Summary:	Discusses the background against which the Americans with Disabilities Act was formed.
Physical Description:	xi, 382 pages ; 21 cm
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 363-368) and index.
ISBN:	0812924126 9780812924121 0812919645 9780812919646
Author Notes:	Joseph P. Shapiro is an award-winning journalist who is an NPR news investigations correspondent. Before joining NPR, he spent 19 years at U.S. News & World Report as a senior writer on social policy, and served as the magazine's Rome bureau chief, White House correspondent, and congressional reporter. For his investigative work, Shapiroreceived a duPont Award, a George Foster Peabody Award, a Robert F. Kennedy Award, and the Edward R. Murrow Award. He is the author of No Pity- People with Disabilities Forging a New Civil Rights Movement .